Your Postal Service Experience

Hi,

I was wondering if you would like to share your experience with your postal service i.e how long it normally takes to reach the destination by ordinary mail as well as the registered, any pleasant surprise, any change in the service over the years, how you rate your service overall etc.

It will be interesting to hear about your experiences throughout your journey.

I'll tell you a story: for a period, in the early 1920-ies, my grandfather was living in Belgrade while my grandmother remained in Dubrovnik (both cities were in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia then). They wrote each other every day and from the postal stamps you could see that it took ONE day for a letter/card to reach them. And the price was symbolic.

Can anyone beat that today, ANYWHERE in the world? With road vehicles travelling at three times the speed, trains even faster and planes that were almost non existent then. 

So, where is the root of the problem? Bureaucracy, laziness, control, greed… or all of them combined?

Welcome to the “1984/Brave New World”!

Dejan

I'll tell you a story: for a period, in the early 1920-ies, my grandfather was living in Belgrade while my grandmother remained in Dubrovnik (both cities were in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia then). They wrote each other every day and from the postal stamps you could see that it took ONE day for a letter/card to reach them. And the price was symbolic.

Can anyone beat that today, ANYWHERE in the world? With road vehicles travelling at three times the speed, trains even faster and planes that were almost non existent then. 

So, where is the root of the problem? Bureaucracy, laziness, control, greed… or all of them combined?

Welcome to the “1984/Brave New World”!

At the same time in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, mail was collected and distributed up to seven times a day on workdays (saturdays included). That is why old postmarks also indicate time of day.